Italian Flavio Pace will now work as secretary at the Vatican Dicastery to promote Christian unity. The press room announced this Friday the appointment of Pope Francis.
After the accident at the construction of a supermarket in Florence, which left at least five people dead, Pope Francis expressed his condolences to the mourners. The Vatican published…
Francis also gave the 46-year-old priest the personal title of archbishop, according to the statement. Pace was previously undersecretary of the Vatican Office for the Eastern Churches.
In the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, he succeeds the Bishop of the Curia, Brian Farrell. The Vatican institution is headed by Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch.
(Vatican news – pr)